8 Pre-Build AutoGen Stage

For the remainder of this document, unless otherwise specified (using system environment variable, WORKSPACE), references to the WORKSPACE and $(WORKSPACE) refer to the ordered list of directories specified by the combination of WORKSPACE and PACKAGES_PATH. The build system will automatically join the directories and search these paths to locate content, with the first match terminating the search. For example given the following set of environment variables, and the MdeModulePkg is located in both the edk2 and edk2Copy directories, the build system would use the C:\work\edk2\MdeModulePkg when attempting to locate the MdeModulePkg.dec file.

set WORKSPACE=c:\work
set PACKAGES_PATH=c:\work\edk2;c:\work\edk2Copy